Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 86

In which I attack science!

    First of all, I wish a happy fourth of July to everybody out there and a Happy Independence Day to my fellow yanquis, and, to my English friends, I offer this chirpy little ditty from no less a personage than King George III himself.   And now, that done, I want to share […]

Like Father, Like Son

    The following items were posted just today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter Radio Show — June 25, 2023 The discussants for the 25 June 2023 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show were Steve Densley, Mark Johnson, and John Thompson, along with special guest Matt Bowen. They discussed Come, Follow Me New […]

A relatively brief tour of the universe, with friends

    My wife and I just finished hosting our regular monthly book group, which is officially titled The Gadianton Polysophical Marching and Chowder Society.  (We’re still doing virtual, online meetings.)  Our book for this month was Prue Shaw’s Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity, which we really enjoyed.  It’s an excellent commentary. On Friday […]

“Inside the Mormon Church’s Globe-Spanning Real-Estate Empire”

    I have said here on multiple occasions that, owing to the concerns expressed by some former donors to the Interpreter Foundation, I no longer hold any political opinions and that I’m not even aware who the president is, nor when she is going to need to campaign toward earning her second (or it […]

“I Will Come to You”

    Astoundingly, two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““I Will Come to You”: An Investigation of Early Christian Beliefs about Post-Ascension Visitations of the Risen Jesus,” written by Timothy Gervais Abstract: While later Creedal Christians have come to view “the Ascension” recorded in the first chapter of […]

Pip and I and the Shock of Self-Recognition

    With three of our friends, my wife and I formed a tiny book group a couple of years ago, or thereabouts.  We meet roughly once a month, though a little bit irregularly, for dinner and conversation.  Our book for tonight is Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens.  (It’s too bad, by the way, that […]

“Hey, we do go on!”

    Dr. Lynn Johnson has kindly called my attention to an article that appeared in yesterday’s Epoch Times:  “Depressed Woman Dies on Operating Table, Sees Heaven and Future Events, Returns to Life a New Person.”  It’s a good example, and a pretty representative one, of a near-death experience, and I want to call attention […]

A striking case of what seems to be “extraordinary knowing”

    This presentation, which was delivered by Camille Stilson Williams on Saturday, 12 March 2016, at 2016’s Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: “Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit,” has just gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  “Conference Talks:  Veiled in Flesh: An LDS Perspective on the Body”     I was […]

Unconquered

    Today marks the 179th anniversary of the assassination of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his elder brother Hyrum by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.  They were, ostensibly, in the custody and under the protection of the state.  The British-born John Taylor, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the future […]

Defining “Intelligent Design”

    First, though:  The discussants for the 18 June 2023 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show were Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson, and Robert Boylan.  During the two-hour program, they discussed Come, Follow Me New Testament lesson 29, the Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, the Mormon History Association Conference, and the Religious Freedom Annual Review. […]